Joseph Campanella
Also Known As: Joseph Anthony Campanella
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: November 21, 1924
Deathday: May 16, 2018
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Charles Darwin: Evolution's Voice
Overview: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution stands as one of the most important discoveries in the history of science. Yet in his lifetime, Darwin was reluctant to reveal what he had learned for fear that it would make outcasts of him and his family. This fascinating installment of A&E's popular "Biography" series profiles the life and times of the controversial naturalist, presenting excerpts from his journals and opinions from expert scholars.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-12
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Search for the Great Sharks
Overview: A journey into the land of sharks. The old myth of swimming killing machines is put against the true nature of those rather peaceful hunters, whose evolution ended in biological perfection millions of years ago. We accompany expeditions of Dr. Eugenie Clark and Rodney Fox, who have studied sharks since the 1950's.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Silent Running
Overview: After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Mission to Glory: A True Story
Overview: Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity. An explorer, astronomer and map maker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through California, Arizona and Mexico.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Ben
Overview: A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-23
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Overview: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers
Overview: Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent, killed by the mafia.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-25
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The Dukes
Overview: The Dukes,a Doo Wop group, were on top of the world at 17, now are struggling for survival in 2008. Their manager is desperately trying to get them work but is met with failure at every turn. Finally pushed to the extreme , they pull a heist only a fool would attempt, which leaves them even more desperate. When all seems lost, they find themselves.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-23
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The Whole World Is Watching
Overview: In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a student protest movement charged with the murder of a campus policeman. The problem is that the student, and his supporters, may be more interested in making a statement about their grievances than about his acquittal.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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And Then They Forgot God
Overview: "And Then They Forgot God" is set in a dystopian future, one in which the environment has suffered (people carry around breathing gear) and people must navigate extremely bureaucratic and rigid rules and procedures. Food is only available through the government, and only to those holding a monthly-issued card. Joe Campanella plays a husband who finds himself in desperate straits when his ration card is rejected because it was in poor condition when received. Despite an official policy that no one in that society goes hungry, Campanella's character receives no help.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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The Glow
Overview: A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-02
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Hangar 18
Overview: During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-01
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Hit Lady
Overview: At a Texas barbecue, a pretty woman chats up a wealthy rancher, and soon they're off on a horseback ride. Before she shoots him on an isolated road, she gives him a minute to reflect on who he might have offended on his rise to the top. She's Angela de Vries, a contract killer based in L.A. She wants this to have been her last job; her contractor wants one more death, a national union leader, made to look like an accident. She starts her homework on this mark. Meanwhile, in her private life, she's in love with a budding photographer. Is there any way that she can get out of the game and have a full love life?
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-06
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Journey from Darkness
Overview: A brilliant blind student fights a seemingly hopeless battle to gain acceptance into medical school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-25
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America's National Parks: The Sights and Sounds of Yellowstone National Park
Overview: This breathtaking video tour of Yellowstone National Park is captured by nature photographer Russ Finley in all it's glory, and narrated by actor Joseph Campenella. The oldest, largest, and most popular national park in this country,k Yellowstone not only offers superb mountain scenery, but also is one of the world's principal wildlife preserves. See the majestic moose and elk with their huge antlers, rare trumpeter swan, ever-hungry bear, playful river otter, skittish coyote and shaggy buffalo, all in their native environment. The park fought for it's life in the fires of 1988 - seen in dramatic footage - but endures as a year-round riot of color and contrast, topped off by the towering geyser of Old Faithful
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Down the Drain
Overview: A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret information.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-25
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The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
Overview: Detective Jim Rockford works to uncover facts of the death of a wealthy socialite whose two grown children are accused of murdering her. Complicating matters are Rockford's omnipresent "friend" Angel, and Rockford's ex-wife Kit, a lawyer who represents the children.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-27
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Dead Girls Don't Tango
Overview: Police inspector must stop a serial killer who dances tango with his victims before strangling them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-06
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The Plutonium Incident
Overview: A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-11
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Zoos of the World
Overview: Travel around the globe to some of the best zoos, which are striving to fill a new role that relates directly to environmental education.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-15
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The Young Lovers
Overview: A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-12
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Unwed Father
Overview: A teenage boy fathers a child with his girlfriend. He then fights his parents, the girlfriend, the girl's parents and the courts in an attempt to get custody of the child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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The Trouble With People
Overview: The overall title for five short sketches by Neil Simon. 1: "The Greasy Diner." The story of a couple who enter a diner, take one look around, then wish they had never entered. 2: "The Man Who Got a Ticket." The story of a driver who is issued 369 summonses by a confused computer. 3: "The Night Visitor." The efforts of a detective to catch an elusive prowler. 4: "The Office Sharers." The story of Ernie and Ben, friends who have worked side by side for eight years without an argument until... 5: "Double Trouble." The story of a husband who wrenches his back while closing the window for his wife who has the chills.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-12
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Sky Heist
Overview: A husband and wife come up with a plan to steal $10 million in gold, using the hijacking of a police helicopter as a diversion.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-26
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Meteor
Overview: After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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Return to Fantasy Island
Overview: A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Career woman Margo Dean's assistant, Lowell Benson, hopes to romance her; Brian and Lucy Faber want to see the daughter they gave up for adoption; Janet Fleming, who lost her memory on her honeymoon, wants to relive it to cure her amnesia.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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All About Jesus – Who Is This Jesus?
Overview: Hosted by D. James Kennedy, PH.D. and Dean Jones. Enriched with scenes from the dramatic mini-series A.D., this fast pace documentary provides exciting explanations to some of the most important questions ever asked regarding the most controversial man who ever lived -- Jesus Christ.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-26
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The Game
Overview: To avenge the death of his family, a man infiltrates a group of wealthy killers who take homeless people and use them as prey in a sadistic game of "hunt the man down".
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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A Show of Force
Overview: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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James Dean: Race with Destiny
Overview: Casper Van Dien of Starship Troopers stars as James Dean, whose remarkable talent and rebel attitude took Hollywood by storm. But as Dean's star begins to rise, his passionate affair with Italian ingenue Pier Angeli (Carrie Mitchum of The Bold and the Beautiful) angers her disapproving mother (Academy Award nominee Diane Ladd) and studio chief Jack Warner (Mike Connors). How did a broken heart, reckless behavior and his relationships with Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and director George Stevens (the legendary Robert Mitchum in his final screen role) lead to Dean's ultimate race with destiny? Connie Stevens, Joseph Campanella and Casey Kasem co-star in this revealing biopic that goes behind the myth to tell the true story of the superstar who lived fast, died young and left a legacy that changed movies forever.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-02
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Magic Kid
Overview: Karate action and laughs never cease when a brother and sister go to California to visit their uncle. They soon discover that he's an alcoholic on the run from the Mob who want him to pay up or else...
Genres: Action Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-27
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Murder Once Removed
Overview: Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to cover it up.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Dark Dreams
Overview: In this creepy anthology thriller a mind reader detects the thoughts of someone who wants to kill her, a young man is given miraculous healing powers that he puts to evil uses, and an astronaut in space is terrorized by a psychotic onboard computer.
Genres: Fantasy Horror TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-01
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Great Transport
Overview: This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-07-04
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My Body, My Child
Overview: A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-11
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The Great Builders of Egypt
Overview: Documentary about the building of ancient Egypt
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-07
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Cafe Romeo
Overview: A New York City waitress finds opposition rather than support from her husband in achieving her dream of becoming a designer.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-11
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Terror on the 40th Floor
Overview: A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-17
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The Glass Cage
Overview: Swarthy Paul Yeager arrives in New Orleans, and promptly gets a job bartending at La Cage du Verre, a show bar where his former girlfriend Jacqueline is a dancer and the moll of its sadistic owner, Marko. He and Jacqueline smuggle diamonds and drugs, with the local police detective in on the take. Even though Paul is ex-CIA, he's not undercover, he just wants to win Jacqueline back. His CIA pals from black ops are on hand hoping to arrest Marko's boss. Detective Montrachet finds out Paul's past and sets up a double cross. Her aims are less clear: to get back with Paul, to stay with Marko, or to run her own scam and scamper away?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
Overview: A space-shuttle crash-landing puts the famous web-slinger Spider-Man in contact with a living alien substance that bonds to his suit and enhances his super-powers. Unfortunately, the alien substance begins to change him and he feels the pull of evil, so discards the suit. The evil attaches itself to another host leading to an epic confrontation between good and evil.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-07
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Save Me
Overview: An accountant beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale and her mysterious psychiatrist.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-23
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Defiance
Overview: Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-14
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Space Case
Overview: In the future, mental institutions are located on far-away planets. One such planet is the apex for an invasion of Earth by rodent-like aliens. It is up to a band of intrepid mental patients to thwart their evil schemes.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Body Chemistry
Overview: A research project on sexual response leads two doctors into an affair and their deepest passions and darkest fantasies are revealed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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The President's Plane Is Missing
Overview: When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear exchange with the Chinese.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-23
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The Force Within
Overview: This portrays harmony and friction involving oriental and Mediterranean factions, both proficient at martial artistry, but one is dabbling in illicit dealings fronted by a nightclub.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Skyway to Death
Overview: The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8,500 feet in the air.
Genres: Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-19
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Steele Justice
Overview: Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-08
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Hologram Man
Overview: Five years after the mad terrorist Slash Galagher was sentenced to holographic stasis, he is given a parole hearing. But an equipment failure engineered by his cronies transforms the criminal into a living hologram with god-like powers. Now, stopping him is up to Kurt Decoda, the man who as a police rookie was responsible for arresting Galagher.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-27
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For Heaven's Sake
Overview: SARAH MIILLER, known to her grandchildren as 'Nanny,' is still slim and athletic in her early seventies. She's a successful author, is feisty, intellectual and full of fun. Her granddaughter, KATIE WHITMAN is closest to her 'Nanny' and continually tries to get her to ride the highest roller coaster in the nearby theme park. Nanny refuses, confiding to Katie that she's deathly afraid of heights. This causes Katie to divulge her biggest secret that she is terrified of dying. Sarah hopes that she can help Katie deal with her anxieties over time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-23
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Christmas at Cadillac Jack's
Overview: While stranded at a diner on Christmas Eve, Rose finds personal redemption in protecting a young baby from an abusive father on her way to reconciling with the child she had to give up for adoption in her youth.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-18
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Original Intent
Overview: Matthew Cameron (Jay Richardson) is a lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis despite having a seemingly perfect life with his wife, advertising executive Jessica (Candy Clark), and his young son. When he champions a homeless shelter facing eviction, his problems only deepen. Matthew faces pressure from Jessica, whose agency is representing the corporate honcho pushing the eviction, and Matthew is forced to question his values and loyalties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-13
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Drive Hard, Drive Fast
Overview: A race-car driver finds himself in a romantic triangle and a machete-swinging stranger trying to kill him.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-23
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Too Bad About Jack
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Child Under A Leaf
Overview: A restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-11
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You'll Never See Me Again
Overview: After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Last Call
Overview: As a little girl, Cindy had to witness how the shady estate agent Jason Laurence killed her mother. In the 22 years since then, he was never called to account for this crime. So Cindy decides to take vengeance herself.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-06
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Earthbound
Overview: A family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.
Genres: Family Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-27
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Computers Are People, Too!
Overview: This movie explores the possibilities of interaction between man and computer, with some historical background. It demonstrates techniques introduced in the Walt Disney movie _Tron (1982)_, combining computer-synthesized animation and real-life object photography.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-23
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Ring of Passion
Overview: Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-04
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Any Second Now
Overview: A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money. He arranges for her to have an auto accident. However, instead of killing her, the accident only causes her to lose her memory, and the doctors say that it could return at any moment.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-11
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Wild River: The Colorado
Overview: Take a relaxing trip from the headwaters of Rocky Mountain National Park to Mexico's Gulf of California as actor Joseph Campanella follows the Colorado River down its winding path. The classical sounds of music's greatest composers provides a soothing backdrop to the wondrous vistas and breathtaking landscapes, leaving the viewer both enlightened and calmed as the camera explores fast-moving rapids and serine stretches of natural wonder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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Terror on Track 9
Overview: A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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A Clear and Present Danger
Overview: The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Honor Thy Father
Overview: Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill is compelled to take over the "empire," other mafiosi attempt to take what's theirs. Brenda Vaccaro and Richard S. Castellano fill out the impressive cast of this gripping crime tale.
Genres: Crime History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Four Boys and a Gun
Overview: The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-11
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Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
Overview: This documentary presents the story of Dorothy Stratten, who was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Year in 1980. Stratten was murdered by her husband, Paul Snider. The film investigates the playmate’s past, the dynamics of her relationship with her husband, and the events surrounding her violent demise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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